There is hardly a more reliable feature of a broken system than rewarding failure and mediocrity. And when a system of medicine rewards one of his...
No I think you're seeing it clearly. The problem is misuse. The questionnaires don't say anything by themselves, it's the interpretation that can...
The broader use of questionnaires in medicine is a growing problem, it's turning the whole practice into pseudoscience. It simply has no place...
This word salad is the incoherent ramblings of a very confused mind. WTH is wrong that this mad-hatter is taken seriously? He should be a patient...
Ah, so same outcome, then?
Oh, the trial you can both have and eat!
And 5 decades later, still the same. Every psychosocial research paper, even those making broad conclusions and treatment recommendations, is...
Indeed, just giving a standard regular stock of sausage rolls to a group of ME patients would actually make them rate their fatigue as "improved"...
And ironically enough, I think that's Sharpe's current "research". So it looks like his fictitious model is failing again and he's just going...
This directly contradicts the narrative that ME patients are heavy utilizers of health care resources. Not that it ever had any evidence but this...
This looks pretty fair and accurate. I guess we should expect some furious outrage from the ideological squad in the next few days? An accurate...
NIH demanded hypothesis-testing from senior researchers working at world-class facilities. They don't always demand that, they could have set...
Seems pretty safe to say that what they mean by active patients is to follow instructions dutifully. It's still very much a unidirectional...
So, N=2 so far but nonetheless aligns with how this usually goes but it seems that the "link" between autism and CFS alleged in the abstract is...
Bit funny that the solution to "medicine is too top-down and patronizing and this is causing problems" is to invent psychologically-based...
And they so fearful of saying their true intent that they don't mind pretending to be stupid, knowing people in the know hear the dog whistle....
But the questionnaires tell them what they want to hear so of course they're not biased. smirks in Dunning-Kruger
It definitely will, with time. It would just be nice if we could actually consent to what happens in the interval. That's the worst of it: our...
I certainly can believe that privileged nobles can receive some form of secondary health benefits. To a point, but that takes great wealth and...
I really want the authors to explain, in painful detail, what they mean by disease benefits. Or anyone who promotes this idea that pervades the...
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